Mint Tea

Name: Mint Tea
Cuisine: Moroccan
Ingredients: Pour in boiling water; then quickly strain out water to clean tea of dust.; Repeat this operation and then serve tea in little glasses, pouring with the pot held high to aerate the hot tea. Deliciously fragrant and – surprisingly enough – not too sweet.; Add lumps of sugar to the pot.; Pour out one glass of tea, then pour it back into the pot.; Pour in more boiling water and place teapot in the embers to steep for 1 minute.; Wash mint leaves and stuff tightly into pot.; Measure 2–3 teaspoons green tea into pot.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Taste of Morocco

By Robert Carrier

Published 1987

About

The tea ceremony at its simplest as demonstrated at the olive-pressing station of the Domaine Ouled-Aissa near Taroudant.

Method

Measure 2–3 teaspoons green tea into pot.
Pour in boiling water; then quickly strain out water